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The VIX volatility index is not only low for this time of year, but it's low for this time of year in an election year. Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman joins me now with a closer look, Julie. 00:13 ...

It has been a more volatile market. The VIX index closed at 52.33 on Apr. 8. That came after it hit an intraday high of 60.13 a day earlier. The average VIX close for the month: around 32.3.

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The one-day VIX index would have more than doubled in value from 15.30 to 40.19 between March 8 and March 13 as stocks reacted to the recent bank crisis, according to a Cboe model.

In fact, five of the 10 highest VIX values since the index launched in 1993 occurred in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis, while the remaining five are associated with the COVID-19-induced ...

As we saw from a graph above on historic levels for front month VIX futures, the average front month level is 20, with lower levels characteristic of bull markets, and higher levels in bear markets.

The index has only moved one per cent or more three times in 2017, compared to an average of 61 per year historically. “The VIX tends to move with the economic cycle, spiking with recessions and ...

If VIX activity goes up, the stock market will probably go down. On April 7, the index soared to 60.13, its highest closing level since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, Reuters reported.

For instance, extremely low VIX levels, anywhere near 10, indicate traders have become too complacent.” While the VIX is not clairvoyant, it is generally reliable as a fear barometer.